Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 2 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 3 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 4 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |
| 5 | As I make my way through my lecture tours overseas I am frequently asked who was the best , and I have to evade a proper answer because each group had its Gibsons , but at different times . |
| 6 | I 'm going to a ball this summer and I have to wear a formal full-length dress . |
| 7 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 8 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 9 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 10 | So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever . |
| 11 | ‘ But we were producing so much effluent it flooded and we had to rent a small piece of land specifically for effluent disposal , ’ explained Dai . |
| 12 | He justified that approach on the basis that " the lease is a commercial document and we have to find a commercial solution to the problem posed " ) . |
| 13 | ‘ Most importantly of all , we have got to increase the quality and the quantity of skills training and we have to make a new commitment to education . ’ |
| 14 | Contact killers are therefore problematical , and we have to adopt a different technique . |
| 15 | Because the governor 's palace was in a state of very sad repair and they had to put a new roof in it . |
| 16 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 17 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 18 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 19 | But I had to make a bigger adjustment to studying . |
| 20 | But you have to design a green syllabus . |
| 21 | But you have to give a practical performance . |
| 22 | It 's not attractive or exciting but you have to do a basic job ’ . |
| 23 | you can go over to Africa on a day trips from down there , but you have to have a full passport you ca n't |
| 24 | but she had to pay a hundred and eighty pounds in all |
| 25 | It 's we 're very conscious that erm the costs that we 've incurred we need to keep strapped down to a minimum , but we have to manage a forty million pound organisation and you can not do this on the back of an envelope . |
| 26 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |